The "What Are You Doing This Moment" Thread

[CiG]

I had a feeling you were a Sagat main, suits you perfectly.

I've always mained Ken as boring as that probably is. I can't really speak on how good the post-SF2 games are, not really a big enough fighter gamer to make that judgement, but I thought SF5 was pretty meh.

 

[CiG]

Dal Sim was the hardest opponent IMO. His elastic limbs are always hard to counter, plus he'd shoot fireballs at you.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Do any of the later releases live up to that level of awesomeness?

Yes almost all of them are good. SFIII was godly and a technical masterpiece, all the SF Alpha games rule and SFIV was the shit and imo probably the greatest modern fighting game around, but SFV might just be better.

SFIV is more similar to the SFII series and is a tad bit more fast paced and SFV is more similar to SFIII in that it's a bit more calculated and technical, that being said they are both still deep as fuck and you would never survive playing others online unless you master whoever you play with. Only fighting franchise that is as deep(and maybe a little deeper) is the King of Fighters games ... which is probably the hardest fighting game series to master.

 

[jimmy101]

I had a feeling you were a Sagat main, suits you perfectly.

Haha, yeah? Why's that, cause I'm tall & lanky?

Ken is a good character to main imo. One of those characters that is a good all-rounder.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

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i love this pic

I've always mained Ken as boring as that probably is.

Ken is good, his one of my other go to guys. In SFIV Sagat was my main, but i also used Ken, Ryu and Blanka a lot. For the original SFII Guile was my main until the championship and turbo editions came out.

 

[jimmy101]

Yes almost all of them are good. SFIII was godly and a technical masterpiece, all the SF Alpha games rule and SFIV was the shit and imo probably the greatest modern fighting game around, but SFV might just be better.

SFIV is more similar to the SFII series and is a tad bit more fast paced and SFV is more similar to SFIII in that it's a bit more calculated and technical, that being said they are both still deep as fuck and you would never survive playing others online unless you master whoever you play with. Only fighting franchise that is as deep(and maybe a little deeper) is the King of Fighters games ... which is probably the hardest fighting game series to master.

Wow, that's crazy. I had a squiz online & saw that SFIII was released in '97. Yet when I was a kid I'd never even heard about it. SFII was still all the rage for several years after its release.

Maybe fighting games just had a dip in popularity overall during that time, but then again Tekken 3 was pretty huge.

 

[Satanstoenail]

Tekken 3 on PS1 was my fave

 

[CiG]

Haha, yeah? Why's that, cause I'm tall & lanky?

I was talking about Tech maining him. Typical Blanka player, fucking meth-head.

Ken is good, his one of my other go to guys. In SFIV Sagat was my main, but i also used Ken, Ryu and Blanka a lot. For the original SFII Guile was my main until the championship and turbo editions came out.

Did you play at any events or anything? I never grew up in arcades, I feel like I really missed out not having that kind of childhood experience.

 

[jimmy101]

Tekken 3 was my introduction to the franchise. Great place to start too! Yoshimitsu will always be a beast.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

yeah SFIII wasnt as big with the casuals but is was huge in the FGC(fighting game community). I dont think the original SFIII was released on many consoles(definitely not the 16-bit ones). My copy was the Dreamcast version. But yeah there was a time where 3d fighting games blew up and were taking over but that's also when Capcom introduced the X-Men(Children of Atom) and Marvel vs Capcom games.

One of my favorite games ever was when Capcom and SNK(KoF, Fatal Fury, Samurai Shodown etc) actually collaborated with each other and released the SNK vs Capcom series.

 

[jimmy101]

Did you play at any events or anything? I never grew up in arcades, I feel like I really missed out not having that kind of childhood experience.

Think that was more of an American thing in general. Don't think we ever had that arcade culture down here.

 

[CiG]

Think that was more of an American thing in general. Don't think we ever had that arcade culture down here.

I went to the arcades a few times, we definitely had that here, and I had some friends growing up who were into the whole arcade thing. I was just too dirt poor to ever do any of it lmao.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Tekken 3 was my introduction to the franchise. Great place to start too! Yoshimitsu will always be a beast.

i love Tekken 3, but T2 and Tag Tournament will always be my fav. Im a Heichachi main and i still go on killer win streaks at the arcades when i play those games. I can easily ebat the CPU on almost any difficulty(and if you know arcades machines, you know they set difficulty is set way higher on them). Best 3D fighting game franchise imo.

Did you play at any events or anything? I never grew up in arcades, I feel like I really missed out not having that kind of childhood experience.

I grew up in dark arcades filled cigarette smoke and sluts, lol. Not events but sometimes there would be like 20 of us huddled up around the same machine for hours having our own little tourneys with everyone watching like it was some spectacle. I remember when they first brought in the 2 Mortal Kombat II(one of the best fighting games ever) machines to Pac Man Arcade(the name of our old OG spot), that plays went bonkers.

edit: Ive went to a bunch of events in recent years, but local ones. And i dont wanna brag, but im pretty fucking good.

 

[jimmy101]

I went to the arcades a few times, we definitely had that here, and I had some friends growing up who were into the whole arcade thing. I was just too dirt poor to ever do any of it lmao.

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Oh cool. Guess I never noticed it, I grew up in a country town & was more into riding my BMX around like a little derelict.

 

[CiG]

Oh cool. Guess I never noticed it, I grew up in a country town & was more into riding my BMX around like a little derelict.

Crusty Demons bruz.

I grew up in dark arcades filled cigarette smoke and sluts, lol. Not events but sometimes there would be like 20 of us huddled up around the same machine for hours having our own little tourneys with everyone watching like it was some spectacle. I remember when they first brought in the 2 Mortal Kombat II(one of the best fighting games ever) machines to Pac Man Arcade(the name of our old OG spot), that plays went bonkers.

edit: Ive went to a bunch of events in recent years, but local ones. And i dont wanna brag, but im pretty fucking good.

That's awesome! Honestly as much as events can be pretty cool (FGC seems to have gotten less fun and more corporate these days though) I will always prefer just a bunch of people doing their own group games. Some of the best times of my life were times me and my friends did massive LAN events in my buddy's backyard unit we built to fit 12 computers in there, so we could play StarCraft until the early morning, destroying pizza, or cook up meat on the BBQ and shit. Good times.

They were massive nerds though and never got into fighters, but a few of us would do Tekken tournies and my girlfriend at the time usually dominated lmao.

Also I had to go and make this clip into a gif, so good:

 

[Satanstoenail]

Think that was more of an American thing in general. Don't think we ever had that arcade culture down here.

I went to the arcades a few times, we definitely had that here, and I had some friends growing up who were into the whole arcade thing. I was just too dirt poor to ever do any of it lmao.

Yeah it was definitely huge when I was a kid. I never had enough cash to hang around them for long either.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

they costed just 25 cents a game back then for you guys too right?

 

[jimmy101]

Doubtful, we don't have "quarters".

 

[Slammed]

My old man used to fix pinballs and tables tops back in the late 70's early 80's. At that point they were so popular in bars, clubs and pool halls that the mob making them had a 24 hour call out to all techs so they could be fixed within the hour of any call. Often the problem was just that the hopper was full and wouldn't take any more coins, so my old man would be heading out at all hours of the night emptying hoppers which had also been emptied before knock off time. The company actually petitioned the government make round 50c piece because the coin mechanism at the time couldn't handle anything but round coins and they wanted to increase the game price from 20c a game, obviously they were successful.

 

[jimmy101]

Hahaha, can't believe those morons didn't even think to empty the hopper.